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Can Sub-Saharan Africa Leap into Global Network Trade?
Subramanian, Uma; Matthijs, Matthias - 2012
gain benefits from global network trade? Over the past 15 years Asia has become Africa's fastest growing export market … will not continue in the near future. The authors acknowledge the numerous caveats in Asia's growing interest in the …, as well as the fierce competition from Asia's cheap manufactured exports. However, they believe that there is strong …
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Trade, Inequality, and the Political Economy of Institutions
Do, Quy-Toan; Levchenko, Andrei A. - 2012
The authors analyze the relationship between international trade and the quality of economic institutions such as contract enforcement, rule of law, or property rights. The literature on institutions has argued, both empirically and theoretically, that larger firms care less about good...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012553660
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Trade Integration in East Asia : The Role of China and Production Networks
Haddad, Mona - 2012
integration of China has deepened production fragmentation in East Asia, countering fears of crowding out other countries for … international specialization. International production fragmentation in East Asia has intensified intraregional trade but has … significantly to growth in East Asia, they also breed vulnerabilities. They have not automatically led to technology spillovers and …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012552609
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Landlockedness, Infrastructure and Trade : New Estimates for Central Asian Countries
Grigoriou, Christopher - 2012
This paper assesses the impact of internal infrastructure and landlockedness on Central Asian trade using a panel gravity equation estimated on a large sample of countries (167 countries over 1992-2004). The panel structure of the dataset makes it possible to control for country-pair specific...
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Trade Costs, Barriers to Entry, and Export Diversification in Developing Countries
Dennis, Allen; Shepherd, Ben - 2012
This paper finds that a 1 percent reduction in the cost of exporting or the cost of international transport is associated with an export diversification gain of 0.3 percent or 0.4 percent respectively. Lower domestic market entry costs can also promote diversification, but the elasticity is...
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Trade Costs in the Developing World : 1995 - 2010
Arvis, Jean-Fran??ois; Duval, Yann; Shepherd, Ben - 2013
The authors use newly collected data on trade and production in 178 countries to infer estimates of trade costs in agriculture and manufactured goods for the 1995-2010 period. The data show that trade costs are strongly declining in per capita income. Moreover, the rate of change of trade costs...
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Asian Century or Multi-polar Century?
Dollar, David - 2012
The "rise of Asia" is something of a myth. During 1990-2005 China accounted for 28 percent of global growth, measured … at purchasing power parity (PPP). India accounted for 9 percent. The rest of developing Asia, with nearly a billion …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012552624
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Evaluating the Trade Effect of Developing Regional Trade Agreements : A Semi-parametric Approach
Coulibaly, Souleymane - 2012
-Saharan Africa (ECOWAS and SADC), Asia (AFTA and SAPTA) and Latin America (CACM, CAN, and MERCOSUR), estimating their impacts on …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012552668
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Road Infrastructure in Europe and Central Asia : Does Network Quality Affect Trade?
Shepherd, Ben; Wilson, John S. - 2012
and Central Asia. They use it to show that improved road network quality is robustly associated with higher intraregional …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012553922
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Human Capital, Trade Liberalization, and Income Risk
Krebs, Tom; Krishna, Pravin; Maloney, William - 2012
Using data from Mexico, the authors study empirically the link between trade policy and individual income risk and the extent to which this varies across workers of different human capital (education) levels. They use longitudinal income data on workers to estimate time-varying individual income...
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